this is an awesome discussion. I had a go on a vextrix not long ago, it is aweosme and has regen braking if you rotate the throttle backwards past neutral. I also built a couple of fast electric bikes, 0-100 around 3 secs. Range roughly 10km. Could not beat it on the track due to max torque at 0 rpm out of the corners.
Anyway this has got me thinking, I have a few ideas too but the PTO never entered my mind.
One idea is you get an awd car like an L series subaru, put a FWD box in it and motor through the floor to the rear diff. Then you have hybrid. BTW range is almost never a problem. I used to ride my elec bike on the street and never had a range problem for local area stuff. Sometimes local k's makes up a lot of your weekly k's. Also whenever you get to work/home you can recharge it, even a short time charging makes a big difference.
You dont need to mount wheel motors, you can mount a motor directly into a diff. Also an auto tranny makes no sense because of inefficiency and also I think you may need to keep it spinning to keep the hydro pressure up. You just mount a motor directly into a manual box, keep the clutch and ratios, the space you save from no motor and all that allows you to have a 30km range which means you can get a cheap manual LR with a clapped out engine, put cheap lead acids in it and a short range and have very cheap local area motoring. A proper car electric motor new is around 1k.
Add to this you never need to fill up, no oil changes, maybe regen braking for less brake pad wear, and first thing on a cold morning just flogg the hell out of it from the drive way. It makes a lot of sense.
What I REALLY want to know is can a stock R380 box and L322 transfer case accept a drive input anywhere without a PTO?
